Luigi Palumbo

Luigi Palumbo (born 30 May 1991) is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a defender for Vis Afragolese.^[2]

Luigi Palumbo

Personal information
Date of birth	(1991-05-30) 30 May 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth	Aversa, Italy
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Centre back
Team information
Current team	Vis Afragolese
Youth career
	Arzano 99
2006–2007	Persicetana
2007–2011	Parma
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2011–2015	Cesena	0	(0)
2011–2013	→ Fondi (loan)	60	(1)
2013–2014	→ Arzanese (loan)	23	(1)
2015	→ Gorica (loan)[1]	10	(0)
2015–2017	Messina	34	(1)
2017–2018	Correggese	7	(0)
2018–	Vis Afragolese
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:21, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Career

Youth career

Born in Aversa, Campania started his career at Arzano 99.^[3] He received a call-up to Campania Regional Junior–Student mixed (Italian: Giovanissimi–Allievi) Representative Team for 2006 National "Spring" Cup (Italian: Coppa Nazionale Primavera, not to be confused with Coppa Italia Primavera)^[4] Palumbo won the cup as unused member.^[5][6][7] He then left for Persicetana, a team located in San Giovanni in Persiceto, Emilia–Romagna region. He was selected to Emilia–Romagna regional Allievi team for the 2007 edition of 2007 Coppa Nazionale Primavera.^[8] Palumbo left for Parma in 2007. He was the member of the reserve in national "spring" league from 2008 to 2011 after a season with Parma's U17 team in national student league (Italian: Campionato Nazionale Allievi).

Cesena

In June 2011, Palumbo was swapped with Thomas Fabbri of A.C. Cesena. Both players was signed by co-ownership deal and valued the 50% registration rights for €1 million. Both clubs had a selling profit of nearly €2 million, however the increase only in form of intangible asset (the contract value of T.Fabbri and L.Palumbo) Both players signed a 4-year contract.^[9][10]

L.Palumbo was loaned to Fondi for 2011–12 season, rejoining Parma team-mate Loris Formuso, Andrea Gasparri, Abel Gigli, Domenico Iovinella and Daniele Bernasconi. The loan of Palumbo was renewed for 2012–13 season. The club also signed Zsolt Tamási and Giuseppe Pacini from Parma.

On 20 June 2013 Palumbo joined Cesena outright for €1.5 million, however still part of the mega swap deal.^{[nb 1]}

In July 2013 Palumbo moved to Arzanese.^[12]

On 31 January 2015 Palumbo and Felice Di Cecco were moved to Slovenian club ND Gorica in temporary deals.^[13]

Messina

On 24 August 2015 Palumbo was signed by Messina.^[14]

Footnotes

1. In 2012–13 financial year, Cesena signed Brandão (on loan with €1.8 million subsidy), Rossi (on loan with €1.2 million subsidy), Palumbo (co-ownership resolution for €1.5 million), Del Pivo (co-ownership resolution for €1.5 million), Adorni (co-ownership for €1 million); sold Parolo (loan for €1 million), Benalouane (co-ownership for €600,000), Paolini (co-ownership for €1 million), Lapadula (co-ownership resolution for €1.4 million);^[11] The signing of Parolo to Parma and Milan Djuric returned to Cesena were arranged to July 2013 in 2013–14 financial year for €1 million and €500.

References

1. prvaliga.si profile (in Slovenian)
2. Profile at Tuttocampo, tuttocampo.it
3. La Voce di Arzano 4 April 2008^{[permanent dead link‍]} (in Italian)
4. "Comunicato Ufficiale N°63 (2005–06)" (Microsoft Word). Comitato Regionale Campania, Settore Giovanile e Scolastico (in Italian). FIGC. 6 June 2006. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
5. "Terza giornata della Coppa Primavera" (in Italian). altromolise.it. 18 June 2006. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
6. "Coppa Primavera, ecco le semifinaliste" (in Italian). altromolise.it. 21 June 2006. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
7. "Evento attività: ALLA CAMPANIA IL TORNEO DELLE RAPPRESENTATIVE REGIONALI". SGS (in Italian). FIGC. 24 June 2006. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
8. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-03-06. Retrieved 2012-05-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
9. AC Cesena SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2011 (in Italian)
10. Parma FC SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2011 (in Italian)
11. Parma FC SpA bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2013 (in Italian)
12. "UFFICIALE: quante operazioni di mercato per l'Arzanese". Tutto Lega Pro (in Italian). Tutto Mercato Web Network. 18 July 2013. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
13. "Operazioni in uscita" (in Italian). A.C. Cesena. 31 January 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
14. "Comunicato n. 55 del 24/08/2016" (in Italian). A.C.R. Messina. 25 August 2016. Archived from the original on 13 July 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2016.

External links

• Luigi Palumbo at aic.football.it at archive.today (archived 18 February 2013) (in Italian)
• Luigi Palumbo at Soccerway
• Luigi Palumbo at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)